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Aurora_Fatalis
Would [Kaladin using a Shardblade to pick his teeth] work, or would it burn out your eyes immediately?
Assuming Syl doesn't just became a Shard-toothpick, but remains a sword.
Brandon Sanderson
I suppose I'll go with the other responders--yes, you could make this work, in a perfect world.
NewbSombrero
Are Shardblades Splinters? If not, are they related to Shards in some other way?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. More to come.
Question
Can a Shardblade come back to life?
Brandon Sanderson
This is something that has never happened on Roshar yet. Now they didn't have many opportunities for it to happen in the past, because it was rare for a Radiant to break their oaths. It is not something that's happened and the spren think it's impossible.
Nanotyrann
Kaladin's new occupation raised a discussion about the use of shardscalpels against tumors in Daniel's Discord, can you clarify what happens with a tumor when it is stabbed with a shard?
Brandon Sanderson
With training, it could be made to cut out a tumor--but that wouldn't be the natural result.
Cosmere surgery stuff is going to be...odd, at least on the magical side. How the person views themselves and the disease could influence things in interesting ways.
Pinpoint
Can Shardblades kill spren?
Brandon Sanderson
Theoretically, yes.
Pinpoint
(paraphrased)
If Hoid got beheaded, would his body grow a new head?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Yes.
Pinpoint
(paraphrased)
What if Hoid got cut by a Shardblade?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
The Shardblade cuts the soul and what Hoid does heals the soul.
If a Shardblade was used on an Awakened object, would it physically harm the object, destroy the Breath, or a combination of the two?
You will someday know.
VindicationKnight
If a person in the Cosmere built a fully sentient and sapient robot would that robot have a soul? How would it interact with Shardblades?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. It would interact with Shardblades the same way that Spren do.
VindicationKnight
How does a Shardblade interact with a Spren?
Brandon Sanderson
Shardblades cut on all three realms. I'm not going to say too much here, though I might note that it's possible a robot like you say would act more like nightblood than anything else--depends on what is involved in the creation, and how you determine the difference between a robot and a golem for these purposes.
PatrickDiomedes
(paraphrased)
When a spren changes into a weapon, are they locked into one specific design for that type of weapon? Like, if Syl chose to be a longsword, could she only become that specific longsword?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
No, they can become whatever they want/need.
Ethour
Would a Shardfork be effective in combat?
Brandon Sanderson
...Depends on who has it. I think-- There were war tridents that were used, historically, but I'm gonna say that, on average, a sword's a better choice. But, I mean-- Lift isn't hot on hurting people, even when she's fighting them, so it's kind of a weird thing.
Questioner
How did you come up with Shardblades?
Brandon Sanderson
Here's the thing, I've seen a lot of fantasy art-- I love fantasy books, right-- and people often depict these enormous swords, which are completely impractical. So one of my pitches for Stormlight was "I want a world where they had to have weapons like they depict in this fantasy art" and I retrofitted it, what would they need these to actually fight? So that was the pitch for myself on Shardblades. And I was also annoyed that the coolest magic swords were in a science fiction story, Star Wars, I want cool magic swords that are not in a science fiction story.
yulerule (Paraphrased)
I also asked about the connection between the spren and Surgebinder, such that the spren turns into what the Surgebinder wants. Like in Edgedancer, [Wyndle] turns into a bar of metal and into a Shardfork. Wyndle himself isn't "in tune" with Lift, so his turning into something that she needs with no prior warning...
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, they actually mix. When the bonding is happening, what's happening is that the gaps in the souls are being filled with the spren's <essence>. And they are actually melding into one
yulerule
*inaudible*
Brandon Sanderson
And they are actually melding into one individual *inaudible*.
yulerule
<And the minds are separate?>
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, mhm.
Questioner
*inaudible* with the spren, like, with the *inaudible* would it have infinite ink?
Brandon Sanderson
The way it works in my head canon right now, which I haven't written it so if it changes, no. The other thing is getting complex systems is going to be harder for a lot of Spren. There are legends that reference that they were able to do bows in the past, which includes a string. Everyone is like "but they're not metal, how does that work." Complex structures, even the mechanics of a pen is not something that we have proof that they could even do. If they did do it, they wouldn't have infinite ink, you would fill them up with ink.
Questioner
(paraphrased)
Why were all the Shardblades swords when they can take on any weapon form they want? Would they all revert to swords when they die?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
When they die they'd revert to the basic form which was a sword since they were patterned after Honorblades.
Questioner
Is there a limit to how many Shardblades you can have? Be bonded to?
Brandon Sanderson
Theoretically, not really. There are some things that could bound that. I can imagine people having a lot. In the original draft of The Way of Kings (2002) Amaram had two. And so, it's definitely possible to have multiples, and I had not thought of someone trying to bond every Shardblade.
Questioner
So that means you can be bonded to more than one spren.
Brandon Sanderson
Well, those Shardblades... Can you be bonded to more than one spren? That question's answer is also yes. Potentially. But there is a much harder limit on that.
Questioner
I'm curious. Are any of those rare metals from Mistborn on any other world?
Brandon Sanderson
So, not those exact metals, unless they've been taken off-world. But there are other metals like them that you could find.
Questioner
So they could have Allomantic lore?
Brandon Sanderson
They theoretically could...
Let's just say it's not a coincidence that you find Investiture manifesting as metal on other places. Such as Shardblades, as well.
Questioner
So Stormlight and Breath are both just different manifestations of Investiture.
Brandon Sanderson
That's correct.
Questioner
So Nightblood and Shardblades are both kind of powered by Investiture?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, in fact you can call Nightblood kind of a miss-made, evil Shardblade... more miss-made than evil but yes.
Questioner
But a Shardblade wouldn't shear through Nightblood.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes a Shardblade would not shear through Nightblood. In fact I wrote Way of Kings first and then I wrote Warbreaker and Way of Kings came out after Warbreaker but in my mind Warbreaker is a prequel to Way of Kings, where I was telling Vasher's backstory.
Questioner
Oh really, so the Warbreaker we know takes place after Way of Kings?
Brandon Sanderson
No, it takes place before, it's a prequel meaning I wrote Way of Kings and then I went back in time and told Vasher's backstory but Warbreaker ended up coming out first because Way of Kings wasn't ready yet.
Questioner
What inspired the sword stances in The Way of Kings? Windstance and stonestance--
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, it was old-school, what they call-- the old books that you would see-- sword training guides. Where you would see a guy in a stance, and then go like this, and things. I just thought they were really interesting, and I developed the stances around that.